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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization

by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith


1 posted on 07/23/2009 7:00:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 07/23/2009 7:02:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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3 posted on 07/23/2009 7:02:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv

No, George Bush did. Ask Odumbo, he inherited it.


4 posted on 07/23/2009 7:03:16 PM PDT by Mr. Jazzy ("I AM JIM THOMPSON!!!")
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To: SunkenCiv

No, actually I believe it was due to an early Cro-Magnon man named Al-a-Goric.


5 posted on 07/23/2009 7:03:21 PM PDT by kempster
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To: SunkenCiv

It would make more sense for us to develop the technology to detect and deflect comets and asteroids than to go back to the Moon or Mars.


6 posted on 07/23/2009 7:06:10 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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Did a Comet Cause a North American Die-Off around 13,000 Years Ago?

How would I know?

7 posted on 07/23/2009 7:08:38 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (The revolution IS being televised.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ruminant grazers survived the extinction, non-ruminants were wiped out.

You need a theory to accomodate this.


8 posted on 07/23/2009 7:09:40 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: SunkenCiv

One little problem..... The end of the American megafauna also involved whatever created the gigantic muck deposits in the North and it’s not even obvious to me that a worldwide flood could do that, much less any sort of interaction with a comet.


9 posted on 07/23/2009 7:12:33 PM PDT by wendy1946
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To: SunkenCiv

First things first.

Where was Ted Kennedy when this happened and can he prove his wherabouts?


18 posted on 07/23/2009 7:41:53 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: KevinDavis

Space PING


19 posted on 07/23/2009 7:42:58 PM PDT by Thunder90
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To: SunkenCiv

It seems pretty likely that’s what happened. And during an ice age, so that explains the lack of crater. There’s a whole layer of nanodiamonds right around that time period.


20 posted on 07/23/2009 7:43:52 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: SunkenCiv
Wow!

I think that we're series screwed!

13000 years ago - a cataclysm

6200 years ago a giant Flood

We're seriously overdue for global warming to wipe out humanity!!

The Horror of it all!

23 posted on 07/23/2009 8:05:47 PM PDT by aShepard ("OK Class: repeat after me: "BUSH BAD- OBAMA SAVIOR OF MANKIND")
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" ...the strongest evidence yet that a comet exploded in the atmosphere above North America, causing widespread extinctions there around 12,900 years ago..."

Yet it still didn't cause as much damage as Obama has in five months.

25 posted on 07/23/2009 8:30:22 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Almost certainly yes.


29 posted on 07/23/2009 9:13:26 PM PDT by djf (Man up! Don't be a FReeloader! Make a donation today!)
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To: SunkenCiv

And I’m fairly convinced it wasn’t just an air burst, that there was a ground impact.

It would explain the Carolina Bays.


30 posted on 07/23/2009 9:16:26 PM PDT by djf (Man up! Don't be a FReeloader! Make a donation today!)
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"The canyon is famous for containing the earliest human remains in North America, dating back to 13,000 years, and the soot layer coincides with the disappearance of the pygmy mammoth from the island."

We have that covered here:

'Arlington Springs Woman', 13,000 Years Old Human Skeleton, California Island

31 posted on 07/23/2009 9:33:38 PM PDT by blam
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To: SunkenCiv

Did a Comet Cause a North American Die-Off around 13,000 Years Ago?

Ask Helen Thomas, she was there...
36 posted on 07/24/2009 4:17:36 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Big government more or less guarantees rule by creeps and misfits.)
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To: SunkenCiv; blam; Snickering Hound; cripplecreek

This site is close to us. (Leanderthal Lady site)

Were they here before or after the dieoff?

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/plateaus/images/ap5.html

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/plateaus/prehistory/images/leannes.html


37 posted on 07/24/2009 11:14:00 AM PDT by wolfcreek (KMTEXASA!)
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To: SunkenCiv
You know, this will happen again. There is no way of knowing when but it will happen again. What bothers me is liberals have the arrogance to believe mankind will be the villain in ending life as we know it. They are to stupid too understand we are all living on borrowed time. An asteroid could and will end it at anytime. We live in a very violent universe.
50 posted on 07/24/2009 6:22:00 PM PDT by kempo
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52 posted on 07/24/2009 6:23:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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